Areas of expertise

Profile

Adrianna
Mendrek is interested in sex and gender factors that influence mental illness,
as well as cognitive and emotional processes using neuroimaging technique. A.
Mendrek is working with patients with schizophrenia, autism, attention
disorders and drug addiction. She has shown in particular that brain activation
is much greater in schizophrenic men when exposed to an emotional task, than in
women.

The
clinical and biological correlates of cannabis craving in schizophrenia, and
its treatment with trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (Co-Investigator, CIHR,
2010-2011).

Thecontribution of gender and estrogen to sex differences in neural correlates of
cognitive and emotion processing in schizophrenia (Principal Investigator, CIHR,
2009-2011).

Brain
mechanisms involved in the implementation of a self-regulatory task in children
with attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity disorder (ADD /
ADHD) and typical children (Principal Investigator, FRQS, 2009-2010).

The neurocognition of emotional memory: A combined ERP
and fMRI (Co-Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada, 2008-2013).

Mendrek, A., Laurens, K., et al. (2004). "Changes in a Distributed
Neural Circuitry Function in the First Episode Schizophrenic Patients
during a Test-retest of a Working Memory Task." British Journal of
Psychiatry 185: 205-214.